A simultaneous protest is planned, also for Thursday, at the Los Angeles office of Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that owns gun manufacturer Freedom Group.

The protests are tied to CalSTRS’ investment in Cerberus, valued at $375 million. The teachers’ pension fund demanded that Cerberus sell Freedom after a Bushmaster rifle was used in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in late 2012. Some 26 students and teachers died in the shooting. Bushmaster is one of Freedom’s brands.

I know what let's do. Let's divest from all sorts of profitable but "bad" organizations. We could start by ditching gambling stocks, liquor stocks, smoking stocks, and invest only in renewable energy and free-range chicken companies.

Because yeah, that will fund my retirement.

You'd think a union would want to ensure that its members' retirement money would be well-invested, profitable, and safe. Clearly you'd be wrong, what matters most is political ideology.